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Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home

An April 2007 Significant 7 Editors' Pick: Funny, engaging, and oh-so-practical, Send is the ultimate etiquette handbook for email, making David Shipley and Will Schwalbe the "Miss Manners" resource for the digital age.

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Full of practical insights, Send is an invaluable resource for anyone who uses email, and is guaranteed to help you "think before you click." We are not the only fans of this important book.

We asked psychologist, science journalist, and bestselling author Daniel Goleman to read Send and give us his take.

Check out his exclusive guest review below.

--Daphne Durham Guest Reviewer: Daniel GolemanDaniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses, and is the author of many bestselling books, including Emotional Intelligence and most recently, Social Intelligence.

Poor Michael Brown.

During the darkest days of the Hurricane Katrina debacle, Brown, then director of FEMA, the agency that so badly bungled the rescue efforts, sent this email: "Are you proud of me? Can I quit now? Can I go home?" Emails can come back to haunt us--any of us.

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Authors: David Shipley, Will Schwalbe

Publisher: Knopf

Date: Apr. 10, 2007

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